Abstract
AbstractThough The Netherlands were mapped at large scales before 1800, the resulting maps never covered the whole country. Large-scale mapping really started after the beginning of the 19th century. The maps were meant for military use, though civilians have always admired them. Since 1970 all large-scale topographic mapping published since 1800 has been made available to the general public in facsimiles or as atlases which are sold in their hundreds of thousands in The Netherlands. Is this because The Netherlands is a densely populated country, because there is a cultural-historical tradition or because of the use of the right marketing techniques? With these atlases, map departments can easily fulfil their needs for basic topographic information, old and new. But the biggest advantages are the availability of toponymic indexes and the ability to compare topographic data chronologically.
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